panoramas posts
by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Nov 17th, 2010 at 3:30PM:
What you see above is the result of an 80 gigapixel panaormic photo of London. The photo was shot in the summer of 2010 from the top of the Centre Point building.
Using 7886 individual images, the creator turned them into a single image. If you look closely at the right image, you'll barely make out the London Eye - the image on the left if what you see of the London Eye when you zoom all ...
by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Jul 27th, 2010 at 11:15AM:
Last year, we showed you an 18 gigapixel photo of Prague, followed by a 26 gigapixel photo of Paris, and a 45 gigapixel photo of Dubai. The world of gigapixel photography has a new winner - a whopping 70 gigapixel photo of Budapest. The photo is claimed to be the largest photo on earth, but of course, at this rate, the record will be broken by the end of summer.
Head on over to the photo ...
by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Mar 13th, 2010 at 12:00PM:
I'm in love with Paris - ever since my first visit, it has been my absolute favorite destination. Even after close to 60 visits, I never get bored of the atmosphere. Right now, I'm sitting behind my desk enjoying the city in all its splendor, thanks to a 26 Gigapixel panoramic photo.
The panorama was created by Martin Loyer and Arnaud Frich, and involved shooting 2346 individual photos, and ...
by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Dec 20th, 2009 at 1:00PM:
What happens when you set up a digital camera on top of the Prague TV tower, and let it snap away for a couple of hours? Well, you end up with a 360 degree panoramic shot of the city, measuring 192,000 x 96,000 pixels, for a total of 18 gigapixels.
The image is currently the largest panoramic city shot in the world, and it is hosted by 360cities.net. You can rotate the image, and zoom in on ...
by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
May 30th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Back in January, we wrote about an absolutely astounding photo of the Presidential Inauguration. The photo was stiched together from 100's of individual photos, made with a GigaPan device which controls the camera movements. Our buddies over at Engadget just took the GigaPan for a spin and made some of their own panoramic photos. The results are surprisingly good. They had some minor gripes with ...
by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Jan 24th, 2009 at 2:00PM: By now I'm sure you've seen your fair share of photo and video material of the inauguration of our 44th President. The picture you see above it probably no different from any of the other of 1000's made that day. There is however one big difference - it is a whopping 1,474 megapixels. For comparison - your home camera probably shoots in 7 or 8 megapixels. Of course, a massive photo is useless ...
by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Aug 22nd, 2008 at 1:30PM: I've seen a lot of photos of this years Beijing Olympics, but none of them impressed me as much as this massive panoramic photo made by Finnish photographer Kari Kuukka. You'll need to be patient when the photo loads, on my fast connection it still took almost a minute. Once the counter reaches 100%, use your mouse to drag the picture around, for a 360 degree image of the men's 100 meter finals. ...
by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Aug 2nd, 2008 at 11:00AM: One of the signs that you are flying too much, is when you can't sleep in your own bed without the soothing background noise of a jet engine, or when you find yourself looking out your bedroom window and feeling annoyed that all you see is the street, and not puffy clouds. If you fit that description, then I suggest checking out Holding Pattern "First Class". Holding Pattern is a screensaver for ...
by Willy Volk (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Jun 8th, 2007 at 6:52AM: 360Cities provides panoramic tours of several of the world's major cities. Mashed with Google Earth for easy searching, the site features panoramas of restaurants, landmarks, hotels, bars, shops, places for rent, and more. Currently, 360Cities currently features the following destinations:
Prague
Moscow
Venice
Vienna
LA
Belgrade
and Syria (I know it's not a city) ...
by Willy Volk (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
May 21st, 2007 at 6:48AM: I saw this image shortly after I woke up this morning, and it did several things:
It made me smile -- because it's beautiful.
It made me frown -- because I have to work indoors today.
It made me want to share it with you -- because it is, indeed, the coolest picture ever.
Tristan "Shu" Lebeschu is a photographer who makes "action panoramas." When you click over to check out the ...